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6. Running numbers on bitcoin supply with Pierre Rochard

We are joined this week by Pierre Rochard, of the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, to talk about:

The fixed supply of bitcoin
How bitcoin differs from other moneys
The significance of having a supply that can be verified cheaply
The importance of savings
The difference between savings and investments
BitcoinAcks: Pierre's new initiative for open source financing of bitcoin development

Some of my favorite articles by Pierre:

The Bitcoin Central Bank's Perfect Monetary Policy

End the Fed, Hoard Bitcoins

Fractional Reserve Banking Is Obsolete

Working and Saving are Revolutionary Acts

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347. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Launch Lecture

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The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

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Saifedean revisits The Bitcoin Standard almost ten years after writing it. The first lecture covers the prologue: Bitcoin’s origins, how it gained value, and why it is digital cash and digital hard money.

Watch the lecture and follow the series on The Bitcoin Standard Course page.